Review & Rating Schema for Shopify: Google’s July 2026 Rules and How to Avoid a Penalty

If you’re showing star ratings in Google search for your Shopify products, there’s a rule change you need to know about. On July 24, 2026, Google updated its official review snippet structured data documentation to explicitly ban fake and undisclosed incentivized reviews — both on the page and inside your JSON-LD markup. This isn’t a minor wording tweak. […]